Techniques of reconstruction for inadequate donor left atrial cuff in lung transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1199-1204

  Oto, Takahiro ^a,b   Rabinov, Marc ^a   Negri, Justin ^a   Marasco, Silvana ^a   Rowland, Michael ^a   Pick, Adrian ^a   Snell, Gregory ^a   Rosenfeldt, Franklin ^a   Esmore, Donald ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OXYGENATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN SURGERY;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; TISSUE DONORS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33645364150     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.11.057     Document Type: Article

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